Motivational Quotes

Luck

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Luck

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Josefowitz, Natasha

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Ball, Lucille

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Robbins, Anthony

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Gracian, Baltasar

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]

Bible

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Lowell, James Russell

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Winwood, Steve

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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

Webster, John

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I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Kleiser, Grenville

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Tracy, Brian

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Dickinson, Emily

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Kroc, Ray

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I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Shoen, Sam

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Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Doisneau, Robert

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Davies, Robertson

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Cherbuliez, Victor

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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hawken, Paul

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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Sher, Barbara

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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Collier, Robert

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I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Thomas, David

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Foucault, Michel

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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

Grisham, John

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The harder I work the luckier I get.